Ahmed Daqamseh

Ahmed Daqamseh was a Jordanian Army soldier who killed 7 Israeli schoolgirls and wounded 5 more and a schoolteacher in the Island of Peace massacre of 1997.

Biography
Ahmed Daqamseh was a corporal in the Jordanian Army by 1997, and he was praying near an observatory at the Island of Peace in the Jordan Valley on 13 March 1997 when he was insulted and angered by Israeli schoolgirls who were whistling and clapping while he was praying. Daqamseh opened fire on the Israeli girls with an M16 rifle, killing seven and wounding six before his rifle jammed and he was captured by Jordanian soldiers. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but Justice Minister Hussein Mjalli called him a hero and demanded his release.